Not necessarily a bad thing but also not exactly what I would call "expressive".
You may be able to build anything you want --- which may be efficient when communicating with the machine. But I wonder about now well this would communicate with other programmers.
It was far less complex to code, and human readable. Unicon was pretty cool also, but never became popular. Erlang/Elixir will probably become more relevant as people move into massively parallel constraint solvers.
The monolith centric languages are simply no longer appropriate for many classes of problems. =3
Like it or not, popularity is a significant attribute if you have to work with others.
Not sure why people buried your comment, but there is a good argument for long term support.
NodeJS is probably the worst to maintain if you cater to the lowest common denominator. Easy to show quick results with a low skill team, but generally anyone that can't be bothered to use other languages is going to cause reliability problems sooner or later. Ecosystems like pip/Cargo/Go-flavor-of-the-year/npm that run out-of-band dependency management will have deferred perpetual IT costs. =3
Still, far less than most other programming languages, virtue of having parentheses making things unambiguous. Outliers are Smalltalk and maybe (?) Forth.
What is "it"? The GP clearly doesn't understand that code and utterly misconstrues its nature and the nature of the Racket/Scheme/LISP language. If someone has zero knowledge of the topic at hand (even when it's a seminal programming language that's been around for nearly 70 years), they have an obligation to at least glance at TFA before commenting.
> the claim of "no special syntax" is unfortunately not true
That's a completely different issue than the one I addressed. (And I really don't think the point is made in good faith--the sense in which that phrase was meant is well understood, certainly by the GGP who is so very familiar with Racket's token syntax and quasiquotes.)
I won't respond further.
I won't respond further.
I am deeply jaded by my experience, but as you seem to imply your experience is different I am glad for you.